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Woody

//ˈwʊdi// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Covered in woods; wooded.

    "She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […]."

  2. 2
    Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
  3. 3
    Belonging to the woods; sylvan. obsolete

    "with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace."

  4. 4
    Non-herbaceous.

    "Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants."

  5. 5
    Lignified.

    "the woody parts of a plant"

Adjective
  1. 1
    made hard like wood as the result of the deposition of lignin in the cell walls wordnet
  2. 2
    abounding in trees wordnet
  3. 3
    made of or containing or resembling wood wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Woodrow.

    "Woody Allen has provided what is probably the best theological answer to the problem of evil: God is not evil; He is just an underachiever."

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of woodie. alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    A compact wooden climbing wall used for board climbing. slang

    "And as climbing has evolved, so have woodies — the Moon Board established a worldwide standard for board climbing in 2016."

  3. 3
    An erect penis. slang, vulgar

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.

Etymology 2

From wood + -y (diminutive suffix).

Etymology 3

Clipping of Woodrow + -y.

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